Position 16:30.62N 33:19.30W

Daily run – 145NM

 

Overcast with white cloud all day today, still 22deg but we didnt see the sun until it set at about 1800.

Between us we managed to juggle moving pots, pans and vegetables to make a delicious lentil soup for dinner, a mammoth task as nothing can be put down for fear of it escaping onto the floor.

 

Otherwise an uneventful day, but 145 miles west made good.

 

Got hit by a squall last night, why do these things always happen in the small hours when making your mind and body do anything is a struggle ? We were ploughing along minding our own business when we got hit by rain and strong winds. Being hit is just what it is like, in the dark you don't see it coming but all of a sudden Magnum is roaring along at 10 knots there is white water everywhere and the noise is incredible, anyway a brief “all hands on deck” moment and we reduced sail and rode out the worst of it. Half hour at most but then Amanda was tucked up in her bed again.